Studied by 0 people
Looks like no one added any tags here yet for you.
Homophony
Music in a harmonic, chordal texture.
Polyphony
Musical style with multiple different parts, each forming an individual melody and harmonizing together.
Paraphrase
The process of embelishing chants with extra notes, set them in graceful motions, and smoothed out passages.
Josquin Desperez
(1450-1521) The first master of High Rennaisance style - was famous for his Mass and Modet, wrote Ave Maria
Pange Lingua Mass
Desperez's most famous piece and a basis for much of the mass of its time.
Giovanni Pierluige de Palestrina
(1525-1594) Singer or choirmaster of many of Rome's churches, including the sistine chapel. Famous for his vast catologue of Masses.
Pope Marcellus Mass
Composed by Palestrina to prevent polyphony from being banned and proved that more complex church music had a place.
Roland de Lassus
(1532-1594) Famous Dutch travelling composer, ended up in the court of Munich writing his masses.
Tomas Luis de Victoria
(1548-1611) A spanish priest who spent many years composing masses for the Jesuits in Madrid.
William Byrd
(1540-1623) An organist Queen Elizebeth I's Chapel Royal and also an Illegal English Catholic. He wrote masses for the persecuted Catholic community in England.
Modet
Relatively short composition of Latin words, made up of short sections of Homophony and imitative Polyphony
Madrigal
a short composition set to a stanza poem - typically a love poem - a secular take on the modet, this set the ground work for later musical works.
Basso Continuo
Baroque accompaniment made up of a bass part usually played by two instruments: a keyboard plus a low melodic instrument.
Baroque
The term used to define the time period from 1600 to 1750
Ostinato
a continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm
Recicative
The tecnique of declaiming words musically in a heightened thetrical manner, essentialy the dialogue of Opera
Aria
An extendid piece for a solo singer that has much more musical elaboration and cadence than recictive
Claudio Monteverdi
(1567-1643) the most important composer of the 17th century, composed Orfeo (1607), the oldest opera still in performance
Orfeo
Written by Monteverdi - considered the first great opera, and the oldest opera still in performance
Henry Purcell
"the greatest English composer of the Baroque era", wrote several "welcome songs" for the kings court. Combined older English traditions with the newer musical styles of his time.
Dido and Aeneas
English opera composed by Henry Purcell - based on the Aeneid
Girolamo Frescobaldi
(1583-1643) A famous Italian keyboardist at St. Peters. His works were very influential for composers to come, specifically Bach
Toccates
Free formed pieces meant to capture the spirit of Frescobaldi's improvosation
Canzonas
more rigorously organized works emphasizing imitative texture
